YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (WDTN) — Friday morning saw students across the country celebrating Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day. The day celebrates the courage of Ruby Bridges, who on Nov. 14, 1960 was the ...
Ruby Bridges didn't ask to be an icon of the civil rights movement; others made that happen. She was, after all, just six in 1960 when the NAACP selected her to integrate a New Orleans elementary ...
HOUSTON – Fifty-five years ago, America began integrating its public schools. It was a dangerous time. Desegregation happened because parents, including a grandmother who now lives in Houston, allowed ...
The morning of November 14, 1960, a little girl named Ruby Bridges got dressed and left for school. At just six years old, Ruby became the first Black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz ...
A TikToker is sharing the powerful story of Ruby Bridges, the first Black American to integrate an elementary school in the South. Victoria Alexander is a Ph.D. candidate with a specialization in ...
INDIANAPOLIS Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who as a 6-year-old helped end public school segregation in the South, was reunited Thursday with one of the federal marshals who had escorted her past ...
Ruby Bridges, who in November 1960 became the first Black student to integrate at her all-white New Orleans public elementary school when she was only six years old, joins TODAY to share her new ...
Sixty years ago, Ruby Bridges walked to school escorted by four federal marshals as a White mob hurled insults at her. Bridges, just 6 years old on November 14, 1960, was set to begin first grade at ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Television programming from 1999 features the story of Ruby Bridges. In this lesson, students will hear from a primary source, Ruby Bridges, as she ...
DERBY, Conn. (WTNH) — Students at Irving School in Derby paid homage to the American civil rights activist Ruby Bridges on Tuesday with their annual Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day. “Today is our Ruby ...
The civil rights icon will read her latest novel, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk With My Teacher," at the festival. Ruby Bridges will make her return to the National Civil Rights Museum for her annual reading ...